[DAVID GAGNARD]

The one I regret the most was my first love in/of sports cars, The Jag XKE..... In 1979, I was freshly married with a car note and house note and both my wife and I working, me, 2 jobs......Along comes an add in the paper for a 1974 Jag XKE, V-12, silver in color,loaded with every avalaible option on that model, bleonged to a doctor, had 30 something thousand pampered miles on it for $7,800.00.................

begged,argued with the wifey for it, we really couldn't afford it, but I told her they quit the production in 1974 and the value would only go up, she refused to let me buy it.... my plan was to make it a "show car" and not drive it, just show it and keep it till it went up in value, told her in 10 years or less it would be worth at least three time that and then I sell it and use the money for a down payment on a nice house, she still refused....

Add stayed in the paper and after abut three months, I finally wore her down and she let me call the doctor, he had finally sold it two weeks before...

Fast forward 2 years now, we're at the local Father's Day car show and there sits the silver Jag, I asked the owner if he had bought it from a doctor a few years before and he had, it was the very same car, first thing my wife says is;"damn, that's one UGLY car"..

The new owner did exactly what I planned to do and as far as I know still has the car............

Some years later I showed her adds in Hemmings and a few other places, stating that car would be worth about 50 grand at that time.... still didn't bother her..........

I've since bought 6 Mustangs over the years and she found about them when I trailered them home........only way to do it, easier to beg for forgivness, than ask for permission!!!!!!!!!!

David